Last November, the film and video artist John Smith became the latest recipient of the annual Film London Jarman Award. Smith, who has already built-up an internationally recognised body of work, follows in the steps of, among others, 2012 Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler, who won the inaugural Jarman Award in 2008. “The breadth and […]
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It’s not easy being Out on stage
First published by Chortle, 21/11/2013; to read more, click here. ‘Homosexuality still remains to some extent a taboo and therefore a basis–if not a target–for comedy,’ wrote Tom Crawshaw on these pages last month. Yet, despite his obvious interest in the life and work of the late Graham Chapman (the subject of his play Not The […]
20 Years Out! Glasgay!
In 20 years the annual Glasgay! festival has become the UK’s largest multi-media LGBT arts festival. Pride Life asks Producer Steven Thomson why you should add it to your cultural diary. Remember the ‘L’ word? “Legacy” was the buzz term attached early on to the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it’s been inevitably […]
Out on the Fringe
CRAIG HILL Scottish comedian Craig Hill has toured his saucily-punned shows around the UK and internationally. What’s it like being a gay stand-up? It’s pretty much like being any stand-up; it just comes down to whether you’re funny or not. Some people think gay comedy is about being gay but, really, all it is is […]
How the Cardinal makes bigots of us all
First published by Scottish Review, 06/11/2012. It’s the five-letter word that can no longer be used in public, the personal insult that’s beyond the pale and shuts down public discourse quicker than any reference to National Socialism in a Twitter stream. Unusually, for the English language, it has absolutely nothing to do with bodily functions, sexual […]
Stuart Sandford, Bodybuilding
On 1 January 2012, visual artist Stuart Sandford — possibly best known for his photography capturing the sexual and cultural connotations of the male form — began a year-long project, Bodybuilding, during which he aims to transform himself from an artist to an athlete. Two months on, how is he doing? PPcom: What were the […]
